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I’d quibble over it being the problem, but it most certainly is a serious issue.
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Most anytime someone lumps an entire race or class of people into “white people” or “gay people” or “black people,” it has bigoted or racist undertones. Best case scenario, you spoke indelicately or without nuance, as she claims, but are very understandably misunderstood and now have to live with the fact that many good-hearted people, right or wrong, now think you’re a racist. Therefore, it’s a good rule of thumb to avoid blanket statements about an entire race or class of people.
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Well, smart lady, she knows the game. Say hateful stuff and you will get noticed and can promote yourself. Just another Ann Coulter type spewing idiocy and craving attention. Maybe her and Ann can have their own version of Crossfire.
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If she was a white male making very public, very racist tweets about black women, she would have have been fired by now. Does she have tenure, or just a gutless department head?
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Tenure? Article says she just got a degree and this is her first gig there. So it’s more about a gutless department head.
All I know is, some idiot white principal yesterday talked about “all the black people”, and I consider that racist. This is NO different than that, in fact this talk was even more hateful. This is just another racist we can do without who is doing NOTHING to help racial harmony. What’s funny is that Russians, Polish, Greeks, Italians, all kinds of Europeans NEVER were slave owners here in the US. Yet she has no problem lumping all white people together. Meanwhile if I recall there were lots of blacks in Africa who were more than willing to round up other blacks and sell them as slaves.
Indeed, this school should just dump her. We don’t need hate mongers in schools teaching kids, no matter what color they are. It just is not helpful or productive. Let her go on talk shows and spew her idiocy. Maybe she can go on Hannity and they can yell at each other for an hour, she’d probably love it.
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I regret that my personal passion…deprived them of the nuance and complexity
Professor Grundy, the Rand Paul campaign’s on line 2 and your brother Solomon’s in the anteroom…
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Yet it seems to be so much more acceptable against white males. It’s almost like the one safe group to attack.
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The racism door swings both ways.
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“I regret that my personal passion about issues surrounding these events led me to speak about them indelicately,” she said in a statement. “I deprived them of the nuance and complexity that such subjects always deserve.”
Translation: Please don’t fire me.
Yup. the is the key problem in her remarks.
She had better avoid the whiff of scandal on campus and in her scholarship. These comments ought to give a tenure committee pause.
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The world is full of these hateful “us vs. them” generalizers. We need more bridge builders who break down these divisions and find common cause.
But as usual, the people pouring gasoline on a fire get all the press.
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Unfortunately, like this “lady” proves it, there are still pocket of racism in US.
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Yes, if she had spewed hatred toward an oppressed class, she would have been fired. Punching up, however, seems less egregious to me. Plus there is some truth in what she said; white males are a major problem and it may be a majority of them if you look at voting patterns. Just not all of them.
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The other two statements are actually more troubling. Boycott all white owned businesses? And the YALL one is just a nightmare of unfocused anger and bad grammar.
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She said she tried to during Martin Luther King Jr. week, but couldn’t.
BURN HER!!!
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I don’t know if it’s considered “punching up” since she’ll be a professor and she’s talking about / prejudging a certain demographic of student.
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Nope, not appropriate and she should know better.
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This is fascinating. What is “it,” exactly?
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